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the president's treasury secretary is sounding the alarm about inflation. janet yell len's comments added to the concern voiced by st. louis fed chief james bowler. >> the inflationary impulse, i think, is more intense than we were expecting. >> there are some people who are looking for rate hikes in 2022. where do you kind of come down? >> i put us starting late in 2022. >> bret: while stocks are lower, many consumer prices are getting higher. liz claman host of the claman countdown on fox business joins us tonight from new york with the latest. good evening, liz. >> good evening, pretty. you know, it was almost as if the stock market had a delayed reaction to what the federal reserve chairman said three days ago at his interest rate meeting news conference that was simply that inflation is sizzling hotter than an anticipated the federal reserve raised forecast from rising prices for inflation to 3.4%.

then today, days later, st. louis fed president james bollard said as much in an interview this morning and added that spiking prices we have all seen lately would warrant an interest rate hike next year vs. the previously stated end of 2023, boom, stocks swooned. you just saw the numbers, bret. investors and traders had heard that very news wednesday from fed chairman powell. hearing it from an individual federal open market committee member, albeit a nonvoting one, spooked the horses. the dow and the s&p both closed at session lows, traders i was speaking with this afternoon say they expect this fear of rising inflation to continue to ji rate the markets. now, what are we talking about with inflation in the year over year spike in manufacturing and wholesale prices for the month of may was the largest on record. food prices up 2.6%. copper, you could throw that one out which is an indicator of industrial pend spending. those have hit two and a half year highs.

they are moderating just a bit. the fed chairman insists that these rising prices are, quote, transitory. another word for temporary. and perhaps he might be starting to look right at least when it comes to lumber prices in may they hit a record on demand from the super hot housing market but have now since dropped 41%. you could call that definitely a crash. either way, bret, this is a jittery stock market that is extremely weary that interest rates that have been close to zero for more than a year will soon begin climbing that necessarily, you know, under normal circumstances would be a good thing. it means that we are normalizing, right? but it makes borrowing more expensive for just everything. makes your credit card interest rate go up. perhaps your mortgage rates. people are very nervous at this moment and that is probably what really triggered that exit to the doors, right, this morning and today by the end of the trading session. back to you. >> bret: fascinating. liz, thank you. let's get some analysis from a

trio of financial experts. mitch roschelle is founding partner of macrotrans advisers. gary is president of capital management and robert wolf ceo of 32 advisers and former economic adviser of president obama. gentlemen, thanks for being here. mitch, first to you, there is concern about inflation, right? is it real? is it tangible the markets are clearly reacting. >> it's 100 percent real. it's tangible. you buy five pack of corn and it's $6 and a year ago it was $2. so, i think the members of the fed actually went to the supermarket in the last month and they saw that prices are going up. unfortunately, it's really a tax on the economy right now. and i think the fed knows and treasury secretary yellen who used to run the fed knows if they don't get it under control quickly, it could very quickly

spiral out of control and stall the recovery that we are in the midst of. >> bret: here is the fed chair and the treasury secretary, take a listen. >> if we saw signs that the path of inflation or longer term inflation expectations were moving materially and persistently beyond levels consistent with our goal, we would be prepared to adjust the stance of monetary policy. >> what i'm supportive of is inflation in line with the fed's targets and interest rates at slightly higher levels that would give the fed the ability to use monetary policy to address weakness in the economy. can. >> bret: some people say, gary, that they can't read between the lines here but just noticed that the administration is saying just two weeks ago they are not concerned about inflation. and then now maybe we are. >> exactly. so the last few months has been much ado about nothing while all of us have seen prices spike for

just about everything. and you have got to remember these are the two most important money people on this planet, janet yell len and jay powell and when all of a sudden they were news after it happened and now have to react to the news, that's troublesome. and you have to remember, they have been printing bar gantian amounts of money over the last month or so. i mean, numbers that are unimaginable in order to quell inflation you have to tighten. and the worst thing that can possibly happen for market is if they are forced to tighten, forced to raise rates when they don't want to. and i think that's what you saw this week, the market speaking loud and clear that they are a little bit worried about the people running the show right now. >> bret: jamie dimon, jp morgan chase ceo said this. he said we have a lot of cash and capability and we are going to be very patient. we have $500 billion in cash waiting for opportunities to

invest at higher rates. i do expect to see higher rates and more inflation. and we are prepared for that. robert, tell me where you think the administration is as we head into these negotiations with infrastructure and everything else as far as spending when they look at inflation? >> yeah. i think that's the big debate right now, right? the fed has said unemployment is going to go lower. g.d.p. is going to go higher. there has been incredible amounts of stimulus into the system. thed if has been this back stop and the fed has been using the word transitory inflation which i disagree with and we're seeing that now just with the comments today from fed president bowler. with all of that being said, it was the right thing to have a relief package. we could debate whether they did too much or not. we need a release in the system. it's reduced poverty. it's helped stimulate the job

market. with all of that being said, we still do need an infrastructure package. i mean, the infrastructure in this country is crumbling and it needs to be modernized with broadband, next generation g.p.s. and electric vehicles as well as old school bridges and tunnels and roads and ports. i think the right number is between one and one quarter trillion. i hope we get there in a bipartisan way. but we do need an infrastructure package. i don't view it as the same as relief. one was relief. one is stimulus. they are not the same. >> bret: rich, robert mentions the bollard comments today. take a listen to some of them. >> these are things far in the future in an environment where we have got a lot of volatility so it's not at all clear that any of this will pan out the way anybody is talking about it. so we're going to have to go meeting by meeting and see what happens. >> bret: so, mitch, listen,

trying to read the fed and what's going to happen, trying to read capitol hill is a tough thing to do. but clearly there is concern. >> there is. and interest rates are only one part of the toolbox that the fed has. the other is the money printing they do asset purchase program where they are purchasing $120 billion worth of treasury securities and mortgage backed securities a month. one thing they could do and i think the market is reacting to it right now is stop purchasing the housing market is already red hot. it doesn't need any more will liquidity and they could potentially do that stop printing as much money, have less money sloshing around the system and see if that cools down the economy. >> bret: mortgage backed securities hearkened back to 2008 and all that we learned out of that. >> yeah. and we were hearing back then that subprime was contained and then we find out they leveraged

them 10, 20, 30 to 1. that brought the house down. my biggest worry right now is that one word leverage. all this easy money has enabled massive amounts of borrowed money to buy assets and leverage is your best friend when bull markets and prices are going up. if markets start heading down, markets is youring biggest enemy. if you would chart margin in the stock market, it's moon shot over the last six months. they need to be very careful and tip tow around and just so you know bullard is the mouthpiece of jay powell. every time made moose in 2019. bullard tell graphed with his words. this is worrisome telling us that they may be forced on going a little bit quicker on tightening it will be an interesting next few months. >> bret: robert, quickly, what's the message to the administration? >> i mean, listen, i was running

u.b.s. during the weekend was there gary knows it well and mitch knows it well. the difference is the banks are incredibly strong today. that's the one that's not levered. consumer is leferred and home ownership is leferred. banks are not levered. less' pass an infrastructure bill. let's have the feds start reducing their balance sheet and let's not necessarily be -- have a conviction that inflation is transitory. and, you know, i agree with what the gary and mitch have been saying all along today. >> bret: all right. listen, we are not neil cavuto but we wanted to do the economic panel and we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> you bet. >> bret: chinese officials are going on the offensive tonight as more nations push for a new independent investigation into the origins of the coronavirus. meanwhile, president biden is urging americans who have not been vaccinated to get the shot. correspondent gillian turner has the latest tonight from the white house.

>> 300 million shots in arms in under 150 days. that's an important milestone. >> how was that. >> that was great. >> president biden is touting vaccination rates today saying nationwide deaths have covid-19 are down 90%. >> as i said, we're heading in, god willing, a summer of joy. summer of freedom. >> but the cdc says there are clouds on the horizon. the coronavirus delta variant which originated in india and spreading faster than others around the world will soon become the dominant strain here at home. asked whether this could spur another nationwide lockdown, president biden said this: >> i don't think so. because so many people have already been vaccinated. but with the delta vary grant can cause more people to die in areas where people have not been vaccinated. >> with the high stakes russia summit now in the rear view mirror the white house is free to confront the number one policy challenge head on. getting to the bottom of the covid-19 outbreak in order to figure out how to prevent the next global pandemic.

president biden's national security team insists the origin investigation isn't something the u.s. can do alone. >> international community needs access to china to be able to get that initial data that will tell us the most about where this virus came from and how it entered into the world. >> for their part, the chinese today are calling for an investigation into u.s. government biolabs. the foreign ministry making some bold new accusations. son-in-law in the u.s. have chosen to ignore the report and have been hiking up the lab leak theory and politicizing the origin tracing issue. former president trump's chief of staff says china wasn't honest back then and they're not being honest now. >> it has always been, according to the chinese, it's been america's fault. it is a propaganda narrative that the chinese have put out. >> so this is now a truly global standoff some republican lawmakers pushing for new harsh penalties against the chinese government until they agree to

an investigation. bret? >> bret: gillian turner live on the north lawn, thanks. >> you bet. >> bret: the senate has confirmed chris edge gles as the first white house cybersecurity director. he formerly served as security deputy director. he was confirmed through than news consent vote with no lawmakers objecting. ♪ breaking tonight, overseas iranians vote in their presidential election or at least they were supposed. to say those polls are now closed and a winner is expected to be declared in the coming hours. the outcome will have a major affect on the u.s. and the west because of that country's nuclear ambitions and the prospect of a new agreement to curtail them. correspondent benjamin hall has details tonight from london. >> the iranian regime put on a decent show today that their elections were free and fair, amid mass boycotts critics agree this was next another deception

it. >> has been a total defeat -- disastrous defeat for the iranian regime and demonstrates that the iranian people want regime change. >> according to opposition groups, polling stations lay empty and posters of the likely victor ebrahim has been burned. different message however for the cameras. >> i think he will win the election because most people love him. >> focus is now on what the inevitable victory of the hand-picked hard line candidate means for the future. ricey is at the right hand of the ayatollah himself. infamous prosecutor behind the execution of 30,000 people in 1988. and analysts say there is only one reason the regime feels emboldened enough to choose such a hardliner. >> khomeini is increasingly confident that he is going to get sanctions relief. so there is less of a need for a mask. there is less of a need for the leader to fain moderation abroad. the. >> the increasing levels of iranian ren richment. the biden administration is

still forging ahead with the iran deal. meetings begin with the interred me areas. the message stayed clear. >> we will ask americans and north koreans to go back to commitment as soon as possible. without changing what is there from the past. >> the enforcement of sanctions is already weakened. imports of iranian oil has increased the houthis have been taken off the foreign terror list. and biden two oil executives. >> biden team is looking to cap the nuclear program briefly claim a political victory and pivot on to other issues. i don't believe that they actually think they are solving this crisis. >> so iranians prepare for a new president. their leaders are prepare for a windfall and other countries in the region are preparing for increasingly assertive iran. during his campaign president biden said he would strengthen and lengthen the iran deal looks now the opposite might happen. >> benjamin hall, thank you.

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♪ >> bret: u.s. catholic bishops have overwhelmingly approved the drafting of a teaching document that many hope will rebuke catholic politicians including president biden for receiving communion despite their support for abortion rights. the result of the vote was announced near the end of a three-day meeting of the u.s. conference of catholic bishops. punish shop donald wing of madison, wisconsin says many people are confused by a catholic president who advances, quote, the most radical pro-abortion agenda in history. the president said today he doesn't think it's going to happen. conservatives are hearing from perspective 2024 presidential candidates and other leaders this weekend in florida. correspondent mark meredith has highlights of the faith and freedom conference. ♪ taking care of business

>> former vice president mike pence received a mostly warm welcome from thousands of religious conservatives, many of whom credit him for helping president trump reshape the supreme court. >> every single day we defended the god given liberties enshrined in our constitution. >> religious liberty advocates like pence are celebrating thursday's unanimous high court decisions after all nine judges ruled in favor of catholic group over the city of philadelphia which refused to work with the organization due to opposition to same sex couples. >> i'm excited that the supreme court is in favor of religious freedom. >> we need to keep our traditional family values intact and i'm glad that they actually ruled in that favor. >> while some hecklers in the crowd chanted trader over his refusal to challenge the election results, pence also received huge applause after serving up fresh attacks on his successor. >> when i was vice president i visited our southern border and, yes, it's past time for our

current vice president to go to the border. >> this year's faith and freedom coalition conference may be considered a reset for republicans as they trot out new messages ahead of next year's midterm election. >> we all know what's at stake next year. we all know why we need to get the majority back. all of the foundations of this country are under assault. the constitution is under assault. >> if we have one goal, it isn't liberal vs. conservative or republican vs. democrat. it's america vs. this marxist ideology. >> former president trump was invited but declined to appear at this year's conference but his supporters were spotted everywhere. a sign many voters, at least here still prefer trump era politics. while ballroom behind me is empty tonight tomorrow night expected to be packed that's when they will hear from florida governor ron desantis up for re-election next year but getting a lot of buzz as a possible presidential candidate

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♪ >> bret: president biden is pack in the u.s. after his first foreign trip. that means it's time to look at how the media handled the story in comparison to the treatment over the last president. here's fox news media analyst and the host of fox's media buzz howard kurtz. >> president biden is trawg highly favorable coverage for his european trip and meeting with vladimir putin. >> it's a capstone for the career president biden who spent decades on the international stage. >> which made it all the more surprising that he snapped at cnn's caitlin collins for asking why he was confident that putin

would change his behavior. >> i'm not confident. what in the hell -- what do you do all the time? you don't understand that you are in the wrong business. >> the president pushed back in calmer fashion against the conduct of journalists. >> look, to be a good reporter, have you got to be negative. you have got to be negative -- me the way you all you never ask positive questions. >> this isn't the first time biden has lashed out at shouted question like this one about his son hunter. >> enough to response. another smear campaign. right up your alley the questions you always ask. >> yet biden has never approached donald trump's rhetoric in calling many outlets the inform the people. trump was bombarded with media coverage is you such as the helsinki summit when he accepted putin's denial of election interference. >> would you denounce what happened in 2016 and would you warn him to never do it again? >> had does the russian government have any compromising material on president trump and his family. >> the former president constantly insulted journalists using them as a foil. >> i'm not going to give you a

question. you are fake news. >> i don't know why you say that such a racist. >> what a stupid question. but i watch you a lot. you ask a lot of stupid questions. >> so disgraceful. you know you are a fake. you know that? your whole network. >> one key difference, after biden unloaded on the cnn reporter, he apologized. >> it's an exaggeration to say reporters only ask negative questions. they often ask skeptical or challenging questions to get politicians off their talking points. biden now joins a long line of presidents who are aggravated by that approach. bret? >> bret: that is true, howie, thanks. ♪ ♪ >> bret: in tonight's whatever happened to segment, we look at travel it ended with horrible accident almost 21 years ago but it may be coming back. senior correspondent alicia acuna shows us tonight from

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>> the united states supreme court in a 9-0 ruling stood up for religious freedom and in just a few months this new united states supreme court will take up maybe the most significant pro-life case since roe v. wade. >> if you want to hold on to your faith, if you want to hold on to your freedom, then tough rise and answer the call to

defend america. >> is there a place for religious people anymore at the highest level of government? the answer after amy coney barrett is yes. >> bret: so the supreme court this week rules 9-0 in a big case for religious freedom. 9-0. so what does that mean in the big picture about the politics of the religious right, what does it mean about religion overall? ben domenech bill mcgurn columnist for the "wall street journal." bill, does this change the political calculation or is it about the same as far as republicans, democrats, looking at this issue? >> i think it's about the same. look, 9-0 is a big victory for the catholic social services on that.

you don't sneeze on that. but it's also an indication of how narrow this ruling is that the liberals on the court didn't think they were sacrificing too much to go to it. the more interesting opinion in this case was a concurrence that he would call withering by justice alito he agreed with the outcome but he really attacked the logic for not going further. basically the court said in philadelphia the regulation on this allowed for exemptions and so as long as they allow for exemptions, the court said you can't deny religious exemption. so, as justice alito pointed out, all they have to do if they want to have the opinion go the other way, is just get rid of all the exemptions. i don't think they granted any other exemptions and we're right back where we started from. >> bret: right. aside from the specifics of the case, and the ruling, ben, the

politics of this do republicans see opportunity in this moment? >> absolutely they do bret. one of the big reasons for that is what we saw happen in the last cycle. in 2020, you saw an enormous degradation, a significant degradation of the support that democrats get from noncollege voters. and while the focus has mostly been on white noncollege voters over the last several cycles, they had a real hit when it came to nonwhite noncollege voters. people who tend to value religion more in their lives and are really in terms of the cultural conflicts that we see happen across this country far more aligned with conservative voters than they are with the dynamics of the left. in bringing in all of these former republicans, these liberal suburban night voters that democrats have won over the past couple of years, they have

also been pushing away people who reject that kind of secular agenda. and i think that that creates a huge opportunity, particularly among hispanic voters for republicans to really make their case that they will be on their side when it comes to these culture war battles and that they cannot trust the left's elite. >> bret: you know, you look, charles, at the fundraising national republican congressional committee versus the democratic congressional committee. may fundraising numbers. republicans 14 million, 42.1 million on hand. democrats 10 million. largest off year may in the democrats' history in that fundraising effort at 36 million on hand. it often comes down to money. >> yes. and i think those large numbers, although you have to factor in the fact that the rnc itself gave a big chunk of that that's

represented on the republican side shows that both sides are gearing up, you know, hell for leather on this 2022 midterm because they can see how narrow the existing majority is the republicans feel with redistricting and everything else, they have already practically got victory in hand and don't want to blow it for lack of funds. having said that i think we all can point to evidence from the last election cycle the huge expenditures particularly in a lot of senate races on the democratic side didn't pan out. candidates who were outspent in maine and elsewhere still held ton their seat. message i have always felt is much more decisive than money once you get past a certain flesh hold of cash that enables to you compete. >> bret: bill, where do you see the structure of 2022. we are a long way away. you have issues like the border for republicans, like spending, the foreign policy may factor in, but where do you see the

structure? >> well, i think it's changing very quickly. you know, look, the last year's election, the republicans surprised everyone. by taking a lot more seats than anyone thought they would. so it looked like a lot of voters were saying i'm not with donald trump but i sort of agree with the republican principles. i think the situation has improved for them because the greatest union fire for republicans is joe biden. and he has gone down this progressive path with this huge spending and taxing and i think that's going to be an issue. you know a lot of democrats complained about the defund the police movement. you know, how that hurt them in their races. you know, you combine this with the traditional -- losses that the party that has the white house suffers in the midterms that's a real challenge for them this year. >> if republicans win, no one will predict it because republican gains are never

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>> when are we going to say enough is enough? i can tell you in the previous administration, the president

was very, very direct and candid about it. not only do we need to have access, but we need to hold them accountable for what has happened across the globe. make sure we have sanctions. hold them accountable until we get the transparency. >> bret: mark meadows former white house chief of staff, former congressman talking about china and transparency. where are we on that? is this administration pressing on that? we're back with the panel. bill, do you believe that after this european trip and talking to allies that we have a sense that this biden administration is really going to pretty on the issues that are important when it comes to china? >> does anyone in the world have that impression? look, the biden administration inherited an investigation into the origins of covid-19 and they shut it down deliberately. i don't know what the president is going to do because the

investigation that he launched, it's probably going to be inconclusive. but in 90 days, you know, he is just going to be in the same position. what is he actually going to do? you know, i say it will be inconclusive, there might be more evidence but we probably won't get the full story. we are not going to get it from the w.h.o. and unless there is a defector or something, i'm not sure we are going to have a smoking gun. but we're going to have, you know, a lot more evidence pointing to china and definitely a lot more evidence of their lack of cooperation and transparency. >> bret: chuck, nobody thinks that china is suddenly going to say do you know what? okay, it did actually start in that lab. >> no. and i bet china does know what the truth is. and if it were exculpatory they would lay it out. the fact that they're counter attacking by blaming a u.s. lab.

i think all this talk about accountability is going to be empty. there aren't ready means for sanctioning such a large economy to make a difference. >> bret: the president today asked about the delta variant and what that means potentially for the u.s. take a listen. >> i don't think so because so many people have already been vaccinated but the delta variant can cause more people to die in areas where people have not been vaccinated. the existing vaccines are very effective so, no, it's not a lockdown but some areas will be very hurt. >> bret: the question was could the delta variant force us back into a lockdown. all right. let's go winners and losers. ben, first winner and then loser. >> my winner for the week is jon stuart. he had the audacity to go on stephen colbert on monday and say something that virtually

everyone is thinking but would have gotten you banned by facebook a month ago. my looser is victoria secret which in the des throws of seeing a declining brand has decided to ditch the angels in favor of a focus on woke politics with their new agenda that's always what you do right before the end for a brand. >> bret: all right, chuck. winner and loser? >> my winner and loser both derived from the court's action in the federal courts. my winner is texas part of a group of red states that was fighting and winning for a pause in the oil and gas lease suspension that president biden had tried to impose; however, my loser is also texas because it was the leader of the group of red states trying to get rid of obamacare at the supreme court and for the third time that cause failed. >> bret: all right.

thanks. we didn't want to change the graphic. all right, bill, winner or loser? >> my winner of the week is the value grant staff of hong kong's apple daily who are still putting out their newspaper even though their owner is in jail jimmy lye. the chinese has just arrested some of their top staffers and frozen their bank accounts. my loser of the week unfortunately are the asian-american students suing harvard for discrimination and just learned that their decision on whether they will get today at the supreme court will be postponed until at least the pfau fall. >> bret: all right. panel. thanks so much. make it a great weekend. thank you. when we come back, "notable quotables." ♪ ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. with armor all, a little bit of this... ...protects you...

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is no -- happiness is only the specter of happy. >> vladimir putin is a gangster. is he like something out of good fellas. >> why are you so confident he will change his behavior, mr. president? >> what's that? what's that? what's that? watch your tone, mister. >> i think it was a good day for russia. i don't see what we got out of it? >> calm down. >> american students deserve a rock solid civics education grounded in actual facts. >> affordable care act has won. what a day. >> even though you lean towards feeling that this is more likely a natural occurrence. we always felt that you have got to keep an open mind. >> i think holding on to this hypothesis tightly. now, why -- why would that be? >> i will take your questions and, as usual, folks, they gave me a list of the people i'm going to call on. >> texas will build a border wall in our state. >> today we consecrate

juneteenth for what it ought to be, what it must be, a national holiday. >> till victory is won [applause] >> bret: one week in washington, d.c. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. you know "fox news primetime" hosted by brian kilmeade starts right now. brian, i just want to show you that i can walk on this show. i can walk. >> brian: wow. look at this. >> bret: sometimes i wear khakis and sometimes i wear sneakers. >> brian: look at this. right? >> bret: but i can walk. i wanted to show you that. >> brian: this really hurts because i'm in a different studio today and i can't. >> bret: oh. >> brian: you ended with a total in your face to me. >> bret: jealous? >> brian: of course i'm jealous. i'm honest. you were jealous four days and i'm jealous for one. have a good show. appreciate it. now put on shorts and golf a little bit. don't make them too tight